Nothing like a good case of hives to let you know you are alive
It was raining again as I got it going this morning. I had planned to get some stuff accomplished on my van today. But when I got it going, the old hives were real active and I was just one big itch, so things didn’t go as planned.
New fridge
With all the itching, I couldn’t do much if it was complicated, so I did what I could when I could.
I got the new fridge in it’s box and out in the van, but not hooked up yet, although I did study what I need to do to get it hooked up.
Now that the new fridge is in there, I’m thinking I’ll likely have to do some more remodeling as I think I can do better. But for now, I want to get it hooked up and in use as the best way to find out what things need, is to use them and then make any chances if need be.
Couldn’t get the new gauges done
I really wanted to get all the wiring done on the new gauges, but I couldn’t get into putting my head under there and doing it, but I did get the gauges mounted.
It was raining and cold out, so I had to go back into the house to warm up often and try to nap a little too between the itches.
Too wet to work on the raspberry patch
Our new raspberry patch is pretty soaked, but will dry out fairly quickly when the rain stops. Too bad it’s raining so much with the fruit trees starting to bloom as it’s hard on the pollination of the flowers, which means I might not get any fruit. That’s a peach tree there on the left.
Going stir crazy
Around five PM I was going stir crazy. I was also thinking how good a chicken would taste right now. Yum. I’ve been eating mostly beef for the last mouth with very little else.
More than I’d normally pay for a chicken
So, I’m thinking maybe I’d take a chance on the organic chickens I saw down at the general store at Duncan’s Mills, a place I go by to go to Jenner to kayak. I was looking for a local chicken by Blue Legs Farm, but couldn’t’ find one there,but I did find Rosie’s organic whole chicken, thirty bucks. Now I wouldn’t normally pay that for a chicken, but with my corn allergy problem, I’m desperate. :O)
As long as I was down that way, I thought I might drive down to check out the river’s mouth, but it was raining so hard, I went back home instead and put the chicken in the sink to defrost so I can get it cooked.
River’s below flood stage
I stopped at Monte Rio on the way home to check out the river at the boat ramp. Maybe up a little higher than yesterday?
And they are taking my antihistamines away
I have my first allergy appointment on the 22nd of March and I can’t do any antihistamines a week before the appointment as it interferes with the testing they are going to do , so it should be interesting living through this next week. :O)
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
